Intel® P55 Express Chipset

Big.Wayne · 20 Jun 2009 at 17:13

Looks like boards featuring this new chipset are starting to pop up on the web review circuit, not seen any performance previews yet myself but I'm sure there will be some floating about soon . . . .

Early Look @ bit-tech.net
19th June 2009

Sem · 20 Jun 2009 at 17:28

damn that M3F looks awesome possibly better looking than the M2F

i hope they bring out a nice looking 1366 board the rampage ii looks like hell imo

Happy · 21 Jun 2009 at 11:26

That looks awesome

jbloggs · 21 Jun 2009 at 12:10

Pretty colours.... :cool:

lukext · 21 Jun 2009 at 12:44

i love the fact that you can plug your netbook or notebook in and tune the overclock like you can with car! the number of powerphases seems a little ridiculous thou.

Rroff · 21 Jun 2009 at 13:01

Wow looks like a sweet board...

Just unfortunate it will probably be let down by Asus' rubbish chipset quality/programming...

Minstadave · 21 Jun 2009 at 13:11

They must have got a good deal on caps/inductors, they've gone a bit mad.

DavyBoy · 22 Jun 2009 at 00:10

That is one sweet looking mobo!!!

Rroff · 22 Jun 2009 at 00:39

Just wait til it comes to market... with half the power stages, blue instead of red DIMMs and fake copper heatsinks...

stokecity_m · 22 Jun 2009 at 00:40

only dual channel ram?

Big.Wayne · 22 Jun 2009 at 00:48

Intel's wall of P55 Express mobos caught on video

TweakTown - June 3, 2009

Destination · 22 Jun 2009 at 13:25

Nice to see they've moved the MB reset and power swictehs to the backplate, althought I'll bet some folks reset in error trying to plug in a usb from time to time. Its much more accessible than the internal resets on the P6T's.

aries2580 · 22 Jun 2009 at 18:04

That board looks like so much sex... :eek:

Colossus · 22 Jun 2009 at 20:26

Would be very nice if they fixed the 'NB' heatsink blocking the top 1x slot. You cant even get Asus own audio riser card in there. :rolleyes:

Also as nice as it looks, the mosfet heatsinks seem a bit weedy? And only one RJ45?

willy · 22 Jun 2009 at 20:37

S.E.X.Y

Adrianr · 22 Jun 2009 at 20:57

Hikari Kisugi said:
Nice to see they've moved the MB reset and power swictehs to the backplate, althought I'll bet some folks reset in error trying to plug in a usb from time to time. Its much more accessible than the internal resets on the P6T's.

Exactly why it's a bad idea IMO. If you're needing the on-board resets you're likely to have your PC in bits trouble shooting anyway, otherwise just use the ones on the front of your case like you normally would. Asking for lots of unwanted resets putting it there.

aries2580 · 22 Jun 2009 at 21:20

If these chips clock well, it's kinda awesome that all I would need for an upgrade is a new CPU and board. Keeping my old Dual DDR3

rjk · 22 Jun 2009 at 21:31

here are a few...

insider goss is that no working prototypes are available

they are all demo boards [as it was with x58]

drew64 · 22 Jun 2009 at 23:24

aside from "p55 will be the mainstream, i7 will be enthusiast" what's the main difference with lynnfield vs i7

toying with the idea of holding off upgrading my q6600 etc, just wanting to know what to expect of this chip.

aries2580 · 23 Jun 2009 at 00:00

drew64 said:
aside from "p55 will be the mainstream, i7 will be enthusiast" what's the main difference with lynnfield vs i7

toying with the idea of holding off upgrading my q6600 etc, just wanting to know what to expect of this chip.

Dual channel DDR3 vs Triple channel DDR3.

Apparently slightly less performance with the lynnfield, but not much.